The "Tunes Front Page" is one of the two ways of getting to the actual tune content of this site, the other one being the Tune Search page. It gives an overview of the material available on the site, it's a list of lists. If you are logged in, it also serves the purpose of giving access to extra functionality related to the list of your tunes.
The lists
The idea is that each tune on the site was submitted by one person, and it's 'theirs', they 'own' it. Thus, if we list all the people who have submitted tunes, and offer a list of all the tunes submitted by each of them, then that adds up to all the tunes that are there to be seen. The link to the left of each person's name, 'Browse tune list' does this; takes you to a list of all that person's tunes. Some contributors have used the additional magic of the %%Collection field to structure their material, in which case there will also be a 'Browse collections' link to the right of their name. Each of these links takes you to a list of tunes.
In the long run this may turn out to be insufficient, structuring this by peoples' names may not be the most useful way of doing it, but for now it's what there is. If you're not interested in that, you can bypass it with the link at the top, which drops you into a Big List Of Everything. Or you can use the Tune Search form to specify your own lists.
If you're logged in
Logged-in users have the ability to change their tunes. This being the page that takes a user to a list of their tunes, it's where you get access to the ability to make changes relating to lists of tunes.
- Some links are always available
- Add A New Tune
- Creates a new entry in the database and gives you the editor form to fill in the details
- Bulk Input
- Upload tunes from a file - see the uploads page for details
- Bulk Edit
- Edit the details of all the tunes in a list - see the Bulk Edit page for details
- Manage your account settings
- See the Configuration page for detals
- Some additional links only appear when appropriate
- Continue processing uploaded tunes
- A file-upload takes a while to process and can be paused part-way, in which case this item will appear, to restart it. It's not visible unless you have an unfinished upload (this could be an upload that's still being processed in a different browser-window, in which case, ignore it).
- List postponed tunes
- This only appears when you have entries in such a list. Tunes that a file-upload was unable to process properly, and tunes you've specifically postponed from the editor form. See the Postponed Tunes List for details
- Manage collection labelling
- See the %%Collections field for details